There's my big brother D.B. - he's a writer but he's being whored out in Hollywood right around now - and my little sister, Phoebe.
[YEAH LET'S DROP THE SIBLINGS. Making a quick conversational cut he lapses.]
You know, when it first started happening, I didn't get it either. But then I figured out it was rye. And then I remembered... this sort of dream I had before I came here. It was about what I'd want to be if I had to get a job, enter the workforce and all that, be a productive adult citizen... that all doesn't appeal very much to me. I heard someone say once, though, "catcher in the rye", and I thought to myself, hey, that doesn't sound so bad, and I'd imagine - like, this rye field near a cliff or something. There'd be all these kids playing there in the rye, but there was this chance they'd fall off the cliff, and that's why I was there, so they wouldn't fall: I'd catch them. So I'd be the catcher in the rye.
[He shrugs.] It was kind of weird but it stuck with me. Especially here thinking about how really I couldn't protect the other kids at all. I don't know how Critter knew about that but there you go.
I should reference the original passage for this but it's almost 2am............... no energy...
[YEAH LET'S DROP THE SIBLINGS. Making a quick conversational cut he lapses.]
You know, when it first started happening, I didn't get it either. But then I figured out it was rye. And then I remembered... this sort of dream I had before I came here. It was about what I'd want to be if I had to get a job, enter the workforce and all that, be a productive adult citizen... that all doesn't appeal very much to me. I heard someone say once, though, "catcher in the rye", and I thought to myself, hey, that doesn't sound so bad, and I'd imagine - like, this rye field near a cliff or something. There'd be all these kids playing there in the rye, but there was this chance they'd fall off the cliff, and that's why I was there, so they wouldn't fall: I'd catch them. So I'd be the catcher in the rye.
[He shrugs.] It was kind of weird but it stuck with me. Especially here thinking about how really I couldn't protect the other kids at all. I don't know how Critter knew about that but there you go.